chase certain turnpike. Borrow money. row money. Eagle plank road company authorized and empowered to purchase, that part of the said turnpike road between Unionville, in Union township, and the borough of Milesburg, including the bridge over the Bald Eagle creek, on such terms and conditions as the parties may agree upon. SECTION 7. That the president and managers of the Bald Eagle plank road company, be, and are hereby authorized to borrow a sum of money not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, to be used in the construction of the said road, and that they be, and are hereby authorized to issue bonds or certificates of indebtedness, signed by the president, under the seal of said company, in sums not less than one hundred dollars. bearing six per cent. interest, payable semi-annually by the treasurer of the company, or in the city of Philadelphia. Supervisors of SECTION 8. That the supervisors of Harris township, Centre county, Harris tp., Cen- be, and are hereby authorized to borrow the sum of three thousand tre co., to bor- dollars, to be applied to the payment of stock which the citizens of said township have, at an election duly held, authorized to be taken in the Boalsburg and Bellefonte turnpike company, and to issue bonds in sums of not less than one hundred dollars, for the payment of the same. Stone the road.] SECTION 9. That the said turnpike company, be, and are hereby atthorized to stone their road twelve feet wide. Construction of SECTION 10. That the seventh section of the act of Assembly, passed certain act rela- the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, enti tive to the fees tled "An Act to incorporate the president and managers of the Beech of the prothono- creek plank road company; relative to the fees of the prothonotary of tary of Lyco- Lycoming county; for the acknowledgment of treasurer's deeds; for ming co. Boom to be erected in the West Branch the river Susquehanna. Proviso. the relief of Amos Addis," shall be so construed, and the true intent and meaning of the same is hereby declared to be that the prothonotary who entered the acknowledgments of the treasurer's deeds, for the lands sold at the treasurer's sales, of unseated lands in Lycoming county, in June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, shall be allowed and entitled to receive from the late treasurer of said county, the same fees for so doing that were allowed prothonotaries for entering the acknowledg ment of treasurer's deeds, by the act of the thirteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and that the fees thereafter to be allowed to the prothonotary of said county for similar services, shall be the same that are authorized by the act last af ›resaid. SECTION 11. That Charles Allen and Furman Field, of the county of Lycoming, their heirs and assigns, be, and they are hereby authorized of and empowered to erect and maintain on the West Branch of the river Susquehanna, from an island owned by said Furman Field, to adjoin the land of the said Charles Allen, such boom or booms with piers, as may be necessary, for the purpose of stopping and securing logs, masts, spars, and other lumber floating upon said river, and to erect such piers, side branch, or shear booms at the west end of said island, as may be necessary for that purpose: Provided always, That the said boom piers, &c., shall be erected and maintained under the like restrictions, and limitations, and with the same powers and authorities (excepting the corporate powers) granted to John Leighton, and his associates, by an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Susquehanna boom company," passed the twenty-sixth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-six. JOHN S. RHEY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 281. AN ACT Regulating certain election districts. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the qualified electors of the town- Middle Smithship of Middle Smithfield, in Monroe county, shall hold their general field township, and township elections at the house of James Place, in said township. Monroe county. SECTION 2. That the qualified electors of Franklin township, in the Franklin towncounty of Lycoming, shall hereafter hold their general and township ship, Lycoming elections at the house of Philip Renn, in said township. county. SECTION 3. That hereafter the qualified electors of the township of Tell township, Fell, in the county of Luzerne, shall hold their general and township Luzerne county elections at the house of Kilmer and Finch, in said township. ted. SECTION 4. That all that part of Salem township, in the county of New Salem disWestmoreland, beginning at the Hempfield township line, near widow trict, Westmoreland co., erecGoreley's farm; thence along the dividing ridge, including the farm of te John Sawers; thence along said ridge to the head waters of Beaver run, on the east side of Mathias Alexander's farm; thence down said run to the mouth of Porter's run; thence along the Saltsburg road to the crossing of the Greensburg road; thence along said road to the Washington township line, at or near Jacob Rugh's; thence along said line to the Franklin township line; thence along said township line to the Hempfield township line; thence along said line to the place of beginning, shall compose an election district for general and township election purposes, and hereafter the general and township elections shall be held at the school house in the borough of New Salem, in said district, and John Zimmerman is hereby appointed judge, and Robert Young, and George M'Laughlin, inspectors to hold the first election which shall be held on the second Tuesday of October next, and said elections shall in all cases be governed by the election laws of this Commonwealth, and that the judges of said township elections of the said New Salem district and Salem township, shall, on Monday after such elections, meet at the house now occupied by Adam Coole, in Salem township, and then and there cast up the votes given for the several candidates and make return thereof agreeably to the election laws of this Commonwealth. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. Relief of Mar garet Gompf. Elizabeth Snyder. Margaret Blackford. John Boughner. Esther Duncan. Mary Burk. Tacy Tompson. Proviso. No. 282. AN ACT For the relief of certain soldiers and widows of soldiers of the Revolutionary and SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the State Treasurer, be, and is hereby authorized and required to pay to Margaret Gompf, of Lancaster county, widow of Michael Gompf, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, or to her order, an annuity of forty dollars, during her natural life, to be paid half-yearly, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. SECTION 2. That the State Treasurer, be, and he is hereby authorized and required to pay Elizabeth Snyder, of Cumberland county, widow of John Snyder, a Revolutionary soldier, forty dollars, annually, during her life, payable half-yearly, commencing on the first day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand. eight hundred and fifty-two. SECTION 3. That the State Treasurer, be, and is hereby authorized and required to pay to Margaret Blackford, widow of Jacob Blackford, an old soldier of the Revolutionary war, or to her order, an annuity of forty dollars, to be paid half-yearly, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. SECTION 4. That the State Treasurer, be, and he is hereby authorized to pay to John Boughner, of Centre county, a soldier of the Revolutionary and Indian wars, a gratuity of forty dollars, payable upon the passage of this act. SECTION 5. That the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay Esther Duncan, of Cambria county, a widow of a soldier of the Revolutionary war, or her order, an annuity of forty dollars, in half-yearly payments, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. SECTION 6. That the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay Mary Burk, of York county, a widow of a soldier of the Revolutionary war, or her order, an annuity of forty dollars, in halfyearly payments, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. SECTION 7. That the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay to Tacy Thompson, of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, or to her order, forty dollars, during her natural life, payable half-yearly, commencing on the first day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two: Provided, That an act granting to Lucy Thomp son an annuity of forty dollars, approved the sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, be, and the same is hereby repealed. JOHN S. RHEY, APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER. No. 283. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT To the act incorporating the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown railroad company; relative to the Tioga railroad company; to a culvert along Cohocksink creek; and to Washington street, in the District of Kensington; and to the plan of Penn District. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown railroad company, may at Company auany public meeting of the stock and loanholders, called upon at least therized to borten days' notice, authorize and empower the board of managers to borrow money. row any sum which the said company shall think necessary to construct and pay for depots, repair, re-lay, and improve their tracks, and to make any other permanent improvements, which the said company may think desirable or expedient, and upon making such loans the board of managers shall issue certificates of loan bearing such interest not exceeding seven per cent. per annum, and upon such terms or times of payment as may be agreed on between the lenders and the managers of the said company, to be transferable only upon the books of the company, as may be directed by the by-laws: Provided, That such loans shall not Proviso. exceed one hundred thousand dollars, and sha:l not be issued in sums less than one hundred dollars nor in any fractional part of that sum. SECTION 2. That the provisions of the third and fourth sections of Provisions of the act incorporating the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown certain act exrailroad company, passed the seventeenth day of February, eighteen hun- tended to Tioga railroad comdred and thirty-one, so far as the same relates to the number of mana- pany. gers or directors, the manner and times of electing said managers or directors, their terms of service; and the manner and times of electing the president and treasurer, be, and they are hereby extended to the Tioga railroad company: Provided, That at least two-thirds of the directors Proviso. shall be citizens of this Commonwealth. rized to extend their road. SECTION 3. That the said Tioga railroad company are hereby autho- Tioga railroad rized to extend their road, by branches or otherwise, to the village of company authoLawrenceville, and the village of Tioga, and to any coal bed or opening near Blossburg, in the county of Tioga: Provided, That no one of such branches or extensions shall exceed four miles in length: And provided further, That said branches or extensions shall be subject to all the provisions of the several acts of Assembly now in force relative to said Tioga railroad. SECTION 4. That the constituted authorities empowered by the first Culvert al ng section of an act entitled "An Act to provide for the construction of a Cohocksink culvert along Cohocksink creek, in the county of Philadelphia," ap- creek to be conproved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to construct structed. a certain culvert therein prescribed, shall be, and hereby are authorized, if they shall deem it expedient so to do, to construct a second or branch culvert, of such dimensions as may be agreed upon by them, in any street suited to the purpose, and in such manner as may be deemed best adapted to the object of providing one or more culverts, for draining off the waters of the Cohocksink creek, from the west side of Sixth street to the east side of Front street. SECTION 5. That the cost of the construction of the culvert or culverts aforesaid, shall be paid as provided for in the second section of said act. SECTION 6. That the third section of said act be, and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 7. That before Washington street, between Norris and Diamond streets, in the district of Kensington, and county of Philadelphia, shall be opened to the width of one hundred and twenty feet, as laid down upon the plan of the survey of said district, compensation in full value shall be made to the owner or owners thereof for all grounds, and all buildings now erected upon any portion of said grounds, situated between the east and west lines of Washington street, and be tween Norris and Diamond streets aforesaid. SECTION 8. That the recording surveyor of the district of Penn, in Philadelphia county, be, and he is hereby authorized to revise the plac of said district, and to make such alterations in the lines of the streets in the vicinity of the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown railroad, as he may deem expedient, and prepare a plan thereof, which, when approved by the board of commissioners of said district, and confirmed by the Court of Common Pleas of said county, shall be, and re main unalterable, and a copy of said plan shall be filed in the office of the clerk of said court. APPROVED-The twenty-seventh day of April, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. WM. BIGLER No. 284. AN ACT Authorizing the Allegheny and Butler Plank Road Company to borrow money! relative to granting tavern licenses in Butler county; incorporating the Wikinsburg Academy; authorizing the burgess and town council of the borough of Duquesne, in Allegheny county, to borrow money; relative to election districts in the county of Chester; to the Union school and children's home Asylum, and authorizing the sale of a certain school house in Brecknock township, Berks county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Allegheny and Allegheny and Butler plank road company is hereby authorized to bor Butler plank road company row any sum of money not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, at a rate authorized to of interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annuborrow money. ally, and the principal to be paid on the first day of January, Anno |